NOTES FROM A PRODUCT DESIGN VIBE CODING HACKATHON

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Intercom's product design team used AI tools to rebuild its Design website during a hackathon in London, creating a canvas-style experience in just over a day. The team discovered AI's limitations when tools like Lovable confidently claimed to implement features like draggable blocks and scrolling that didn't actually work. They switched to Cursor for better control, refined the design iteratively, and launched an MVP that won the hackathon despite imperfections.